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renzo156

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When working with a client diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder, the therapeutic approach likely to be the MOST effective would:
 
  a. appeal to the client's sense of empathy
  b. display a motherly, protective, nurturing demeanor
  c. maintain a critical, authoritative affect
  d. an unemotional but supportive approach

Question 2

Assessment of a family reveals that the youngest child has moved out of the family home to live by herself. One of the other two children is married, and the other child has just gotten engaged.
 
  The nurse interprets this family to be in which stage of the family life cycle?
  A) Families with adolescents
  B) Launching children and moving on
  C) Families in later life
  D) Leaving home: single young adults



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Answer to Question 1

D
The nurse caring for a client diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder would use an unemotional but supportive approach. To be therapeutic, the nurse must understand the personality dynamics behind the person's anger and criticisms.

Answer to Question 2

B





 

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